Tax workshops & Mobile Tax Units
4 September 2023 – The tax workshop and mobile tax unit schedules for KwaZulu-Natal and North West provinces during September 2023 have been published. Tax Workshops North West – Rustenburg Mobile Tax Units KwaZulu-Natal
Excise – Vaping Products
4 September 2023 – The Minister of Finance announced in the 2022 Budget on 23 February 2022 that excise duty on vaping tobacco products would be introduced. Nicotine and nicotine-substitute solutions in vaping products was included in the tax net with a flat excise duty rate of R2.90/ml from 1 June 2023. The forms DA260 […]
New Air Passenger Tax System
4 September 2023 – From 15 September 2023 SARS will be implementing a new system for APT wherein the APT201 returns will now be submitted via eFiling including the payment thereof. With effect from 15 September 2023 taxpayers will be issued with new APT tax numbers which must be used to register the APT client […]
Tenders
4 September 2023 – RFP09/2023: Appointment of the service provider for the provision of electric forklifts for the period of five (5) years The questions and answers document is now available.
Tenders
4 September 2023 – RFP29/2023: Appointment of a service provider for the provision of regulatory compliance management software tool The Questions and answers no 2 document is now available.
Trade Facilitation Index Survey is legit
1 September 2023 – SARS is conducting a mid-year survey to measure your experience with Trade Facilitation Indicators (TFIs) that are administered by Customs and Excise Division. The survey is sent to a sample of selected enterprises. The survey runs from 6 – 20 September 2023. Click here for the letter to stakeholders. To see […]
Legal Counsel – Preparation of Legislation – Draft Documents for Public Comment
1 September 2023 – Customs and Excise Act, 1964: The following draft amendments are proposed in Part 1 of Schedule No. 1: Draft amendment to insert new 8-digit tariff in Chapter 5, to provide for Ivory of elephants and rhinoceros in Part 1 of Schedule No. 1, for Prohibitions & Restrictions purposes Draft amendment to […]
Invitation to a webinar on the Diesel Refund for Foodstuff Manufacturers
1 September 2023 – SARS will be hosting a webinar on 7 September 2023 on the Diesel Refund for Food Manufacturers. In the 2023 Budget Speech, the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, announced a special tax relief measure to ease the impact of the electricity crisis on food manufacturers, effective 1 April 2023 to 31 March […]
Tenders
1 September 2023 – Update on RFP13/2023: Appointment of suppliers for supply and delivery of inverters, lithium-ion batteries and solar panels (Alternative energy equipment) for the period of three (3) years The questions ans answers document is now available.
What is the Advance Import Payment Notification?
1 September 2023 –The Advance Import Payment (AIP) Notification as part of the Advance Payment Notification (APN) project is one of SARS’ Customs Modernisation Programmes which involves a collaboration between SARS, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and authorised dealers in foreign exchange and aimed at combatting illicit financial flows and customs valuation fraud associated […]
